Hey everyone! Before setting off for my year abroad, I was a little wary about living in major cities for the year. I was afraid that they would all be like New York City: dirty, smelly, and overcrowded. Most of them were. But during my time living in these cities (Seoul, Taichung, Beijing, and Shanghai) I discovered that there are definitely benefits to living in major cities that can make them worth suffering through the dirty smelliness of major cities. One such perk (and arguably the biggest one) is the food, which is what I want to talk about here. Shanghai in particular was amazing when it came to food. When Americans talk about Chinese food, most people are thinking about what is a very Americanized version of Chinese food: orange chicken, General Tso's, sweet and
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